DASCA's eminence as the developer of the world's most definitive credentials for marking excellence in the Big Data profession serves very well all stakeholders – Big Data tech-stables, Big Data professionals, Big Data training outfits, as well as business schools and universities breeding higher–grade professional talents.

Available across 183 countries, DASCA certification exams are built on 5th generation TEI technologies delivered through state-of-the art QTI-PCI aligned test engines by ExamStrong, the world's largest exam-delivery ecosystem specializing in highest-stake certification exams of world's leading 3rd party standards and credentialing bodies.

Partnering DASCA implies building powerful real–time bridges with the state-of-the-art in Data Science thought and practice worldwide, and profiting in business through world-class Big Data standards, certifications, and knowledge networks.

Big Data technology stables, Big Data consulting outfits, IT training companies, leading universities, business schools, higher education institutions, and government ICT academies – all are adding to the rapidly swelling DASCA worldwide network. And if your organization is yet to ally with DASCA, well, then just start the process now! We'll be privileged to have you join in.

Big Data. Bigger Promise. Biggest Credentials.

Founded on the world's first, most robust generic Data Science knowledge framework – the DASCA-EKF™ – DASCA Certifications validate and test credential–holders in over 30 profession–critical knowledge vectors along the five DASCA-EKF™ knowledge–essentials prongs. Nothing else adds a bigger, most international edge to the employability of professionals
for this flagship industry that needs 5 million workers in 2017 alone.

Why Should I getDASCA Credentialed?

Because getting the finest Data Science jobs, or growing in Big Data career today requires assuring employers about your capabilities, promise, and potential of being a super professional. And nothing can do this job better than your DASCA Credential! DASCA tests individuals along the world's most robust generic Data Science knowledge framework – the DASCA-EKF™ to validate their knowledge in 30 profession–critical dimensions, before awarding its certification. And that's how an ABDA™, ABDE™, SBDA™, SBDE™, SDS™, and PDS™ can lend the sharpest competitive edge to your employability and growth.

Top Six Reasons Why DASCA Certifications Become a Must for All Data Science Professionals

DASCA Certifications for Big Data Engineers, Big Data Analysts, and Data Scientists are the world's most powerful independent professional credentials today. Founded on the first platform-independent and the most robust Data Science knowledge standards-framework currently in practice internationally, these credentials validate most convincingly for your employers that your education, training, and knowledge make you a high-potential Data Scientist, Analyst, Engineer, or Developer.

Here are the top 6 reasons that make DASCA Certifications an absolute must for ambitious professionals:

As a DASCA Credential holder, you join the rarified global league of high-potential Data Science experts. An international Data Science qualification on top of a technology or a business degree or a major not only makes career-starters and graduating students at least 70% more attractive for employers; but also makes it easier for practicing Data Science professionals rise faster; or switching to better jobs much easier. That’s the DASCA-CredForce conclusion out of its study in early 2017.

2Around 15 million Data Science professionals are demanded by 2020!+

This may really be the best time to get DASCA-certified and stake your claim for riding the gigantic Big Data wave! CredRadar studies conducted by CredForce estimate that as many as 5 million new positions in Data Science functions are expected to open up by 2020. With a spate of business and technology changes in organizations around the world, Data Science and Big Data is rapidly bolstering and beefing itself up with Data Science capabilities.

3 DASCA-certified professionals can earn 40%-50% higher!+

DASCA studies over the years have clearly indicated that on an average, Data Science professionals formally qualified in Data Science command compensation 40% - 50% higher more than their non-certified compatriots. Data Science professionals with exposure to Data Science have already become pricier than their counterparts with plain vanilla Data Science and Big Data exposures and experience. A DASCA international credential can serve to add a double whammy!

4The Best Roles Go to those Holding a Specialist Data Science Qualification +

More than 78% of CTOs in a DASCA study on Data Science & Big Data talent crunch contended that Data Science professionals with international credentials in Data Science like those of DASCA are their best bets for building future-confident, inventive organizations. The rigor of DASCA credentialing standards and the rich, tested expanse of the DASCA knowledge framework together ensure that DASCA-credentialed individuals are truly the best-of-breed professionals around – and hence the most suited for the most challenging of roles and responsibilities in Data Science, Big Data development or analytics. There really was never a better time to get DASCA-certified!

5 DASCA Credentials are Globally Respected and Relevant +

A DASCA Credential on your resume assures employers about your above-the-cut promise and potential as an above-par Big Data Analyst, Engineer, or Scientist. Being able to lead Data Science challenges across industry verticals and economy sectors is among the most sought-after capabilities of top-bracket Data Science professionals. And that’s exactly what DASCA Credentials powerfully validate about you.

6The DASCA-certified are secure even during economic downturns and technology changes.+

The DASCA Data Science models, frameworks, knowledge bodies, and credentialing mechanisms are designed with the aim of making the Data Science function, knowledge, and indeed Data Science professionals future-ready. That’s proof enough how a DASCA Credential can make your own career too, downturn-resistant; future-friendly.

QualiFLY™ to the world's most powerful qualifications!

Now race away easy to your favorite DASCA Credential if you already have a qualification from a DASCA-recognized institution in:

What Big Data Knowledge do you need to excel?

Choose a DASCA Credential that works best for your career

We've got six international certification programs along three credential–tracks for the hottest of professions today–Big Data Analysts; Big Data Engineers; and Data Scientists. Go ahead and find out which of these work best for you.

"Eager to tame and harness Big Data, the Data Science space is expanding like our universe is, only a little more ferociously. And this keeps blurring the boundaries among the various jobs and professions in the space all the time. Via the DASCA-EKF™, we're trying to fix perhaps the most irritating of the gaps that passionate and sincere Data Science professionals and the quality–fussy recruiters, both experience. – What all should Data Science geeks really know to keep excelling in their jobs and roles? What has really brought big smiles on Big Data experts connected to DASCA is the fact that we've kept the framework smartly generic."

–The DASCA-EKF™ Development Group, Data Science Council of America

The Stunning DASCA Credential Packs!

All individuals who pass the exams and pre-requisites for DASCA Big Data Analyst; Big Data Engineer; and Data Scientist Certifications are awarded their certificates in exclusively designed credential cases. These cases contain printed certificates, designation pins, and copies of the Code of Ethics booklets – designed to forever make you feel proud of holding a well-earned DASCA Credential.

IMPORTANT: The design and contents of these kits can change without notice.

DASCA Credentials Are Digital Too…

DASCA Credentials come digitally-badged, just as the qualifications and certifications of most other great institutions do. Ensuring you can spread a word out about your achievement swift on the internet, and showcase your DASCA Credential on your digital profiles everywhere – all in real time, simultaneously, anywhere, anytime!

The world has become digital, and it’s only logical that the world’s finest Data Science Certifications should also have the digital stamp on them. After all, the quality of our presence in the virtual space will define how effectively we'll grow in the Data Science profession and create an impact on employers. Digital badging is the best, fastest, and the most impressive way to showcase digitally, your credentials, your accomplishments, your interests, your passions, your skills on the web. Your online presence adds that strong dash of credibility for your Data Science capabilities. You can earn digital credentials and nanodegrees through digital learning from institutions who’ve embraced digital badging. It's a spanking new way to learn toward, earn, and brandish the special in you. DASCA joins the select few institutions including a few ivy-league ones who are now on a digital badging platform.

The Data Science Council of America (DASCA) is an independent, third–party, international credentialing and certification organization for Big Data and Data Science professionals, and has no interests whatsoever, vested in the development, marketing or promotion of any platform, technology, or tool related to Data Science applications. DASCA validates capabilities and potential of individuals for excelling in critical Data Science professions including Big Data Analytics and Big Data Engineering. DASCA advented the world's first and the most powerful exercise ever to aggregate, assess, validate, refine, classify, optimize, standardize, and model the generics of professional knowledge prerequisites for designers, managers, developers, and technologists working in the Data Science space. DASCA certification programs for aspiring and working Big Data and Data Science professionals are fleshed on the world's first vendor–neutral standards – the five–pronged DASCA Essential Knowledge Framework (EKF™), which is a constantly evolving concept, and hence does not purport to be complete or absolutely perfect at any point in time. Though, the EKF™ and all DASCA certifications constantly aim at assisting professionals in exceling consistently in their jobs, there are no specific guarantees of success or profit for any user of these concepts, products or services. DASCA and/or its partner institutions reserve the rights to cancel, modify and revise timetables, schedules, calendars, fee-structure, course-modules, assessment and delivery structures of any program, either offered independently by DASCA or jointly with partner institutions, without prior notice to prospective and registered program participants. DASCA and its collaborating institutions reserve the rights of admission or acceptance of applicants into certification and executive education programs offered by them. DASCA & DASCA Partner organizations do not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex or sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, veteran status, or disability in admission to, access to, treatment in, or employment in their programs and activities.

All DASCA business, knowledge, operations and backend processes related to the management of customer relationships, customer-support, credentialing logistics, partner-network, and invoicing are exclusively handled by the globally distributed offices of CredForce, the worldwide credentialing services leader. DASCA can remove or replace at any point in time, any of its vendors, associates or partners found underperforming, or engaged in unethical business practices to preserve the interests of its customers and maintain the standards of its services to the highest of levels as expected. CredForce has no role to play in certification award decisions of the Data Science Council of America. Individuals or organizations deciding to deal with or do business with DASCA are assumed to have read and agreed to these facts pertaining to DASCA services, practices and policies. All queries may be directed to info@dasca.org